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Are you, in fact, a pregnant lady who lives in the apartment next door to Superdeath's parents? - Commodore |
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I really need to ask you guys something here.
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I just want to know why the RB community has "tournament" (I don't know how to describe them) events only for the games below and not for stuff like Rise of Nations, Age of Empires, Starcraft, Empire Earth, Alpha Centauri, SimCity, etc.
Civilization IV sure runs like a dream on my new computer.
The games that have their own forums are the games that caught on with community in general. There's a much stronger focus on them than anything else we might play.
RB isn't a huge group, and a lot of us don't really have time to play more than one of these games actively. However, I'm sure if you wanted to try and generate some interest in other games, and there were others interested in it, you could get something similar going for any of them.
-SF
Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense.
As said above - those games have forums because they're played, and played as a group. If you want to play SimCity or Halo or whatever, there are lots of other groups online for those games.
The original Realms Beyond Diablo community grew from a site called Woody's Diablo Asylum. This page gives the history.
http://realmsbeyond.net/aboutbylemmy.html The Civilization tournament is really the exception for Realms Beyond. The community's history is longer and richer with RPGs rather than the strategy games. The Civilization tournament was established on one man's vision. GalCiv and MOO were attempts to continue that vision once interest in Civilization 3 waned, but neither game had the robustness to support long-term competitive play. Then Civilization 4 came, with an unprecedentedly tight game structure that supported competitive play very well, largely due to Sirian's hand in desigining it. Even interest in Civ 4 is on the decline now, though. RB grows much more organically with the RPG communities - Diablo, Guild Wars, and now Hellgate London. Actually, I'm a bit surprised that we've never taken on World of Warcraft. I guess that's covered sufficiently by zillions of other sites, including many that overlap with ours like the Amazon Basin and Lurker Lounge.
There is a lot of inertia here from the days of Diablo. We are basically a small community of battle.net comrades constantly looking to find "the next Diablo".
Sirian took a great deal of initiative in starting a successful Civ 3 community here by applying the variant way and drawing people in from existing larger communities. So you have that influx of newer people, who are constantly looking for "the next Civ 3", although only a portion of them have been bold enough to mingle with the old Diablo crowd here in the general forum.  That pretty much sums up our limitations on new games, unless someone as capable and (at times) motivated as KoP or Sirian decides to take things in a new direction. |
